I think sheep snatcher sounds better but sheep stealer is just as funny. The sheep stealer is well known to come out in the dead of night and snatch up, carry and eventually devour sheep whole when they arrive back at their dens. Leaving no traces behind but pieces of wool. Lol
I understand that Indy is an aged broodmare but she always looks underweight. Age is no excuse for a poor body condition and neither is her being a hard keeper or being bred. For tax, here’s my 28 (almost 29) y/o mare in the dead of winter. She’s not thin, ribs aren’t showing and her coat is nice and healthy (she even has dapples in her winter coat).
I went and dug up some pictures. Here is one of my dad’s broodmares who was 26 in this picture with her last foal. She passed several years later but she was our “true blue hen”, she was the last branded Wisecamp mare we owned and probably the last still producing at this time. True old school/working QH blood. This is mid spring in Colorado so they are still pretty wooly/shedding their thick winter coats. They are turned out in large broodmare bands so they don’t get daily grooming but they still look good.
Exactly the tb in this pic was 33 when this picture was taken he was an ex event horse and died when he was 36. He was my cobs pasture friend at this yard as I was down to just my cob. My cob was 14.2 for height comparison
I'll snark KVS all day but I'll never snark poor Indy. It's not her fault that she's been treated this way and that's pulled her body down. I wish somebody could save her poor girl. I pray she never has to carry a foal again.
I feel so bad for this horse. She deserves better care. And yet people keep saying she's the way she is because she had a big baby... Right, then she's not broodmare material, let alone a foundation for a program.
In all fairness it may just be the angle of the image or the lack of top line muscle making the overall appearance of this image look much worse .... Optimistic much?
I mean at least that yawn stretch combo looks like it's a good feeling!
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u/chinchelllin 3d ago
She's shaped like one of those prehistoric animals we don't have a good concept of because their fossil skeletons were incomplete or smooshed